# File Formats Recovered By PhotoRec

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PhotoRec is a file recovery utility using Data Carving techniques, it searches for known file headers and because there is no data fragmentation (usually), it can recover the whole file. It can also handle some cases of low data fragmentation. Photorec recognises numerous file format including

## Archive

- .7z 7-Zip archive file
- .a Unix/Linux archive
- .ace ACE Archive
- .arj Archive
- .bkf MS Backup file
- .bz2 bzip2 compressed data
- .cab MS cabinet archive
- .deb Debian Archive
- .dump Dump/Restore Archive
- .gz gzip compressed data
- .rar Rar archive
- .rpm RPM package
- .stu StuffIt Archive
- .tar tar archive
- .zip zip archive

## Multimedia

- .3ds max
- .3g2 Video for 3G mobile phone (CDMA)
- .3gp Video for 3G mobile phone (GSM)
- .aif Apple Audio
- .albm HP Photosmart Photo Printing Album
- .all Cubase Song format
- .als Ableton Live Sets
- .ape Monkey's Audio compressed format
- .arw Sony raw image (TIFF image)
- .asf, .wma, .wmv: Advanced Streaming Format used for Audio/Video
- .au Sun/NeXT audio data
- .avi RIFF video
- .bld blender
- .blend Blender
- .bmp BMP bitmap image
- .cam Image
- .cda CD Audio
- .cdr Corel Draw
- .comicdoc Comic Life
- .cpr Cubase Project File
- .cr2 Canon Raw 2 picture (TIFF image)
- .crw Canon Raw picture
- .ctg Canon catalog
- .cue Cue sheet
- .dcr Kodak Raw picture (TIFF image)
- .djv DjVu
- .dpx Cineon image file/SMTPE DPX
- .ds2 Digital Speech Standard v2
- .dsc Nikon dsc
- .dss Digital Speech Standard
- .dta SPSS
- .dv DIF Digital Video
- .dwg AutoCAD
- .emf Windows Enhanced MetaFile
- .fcp Final Cut Pro
- .fh10 Macromedia Freehand 10
- .fh5 Macromedia Freehand 5
- .flac Free Lossless Audio Codec
- .fla Flash Project File
- .flp Fruity Loop
- .flv Macromedia
- .gif Graphic Interchange Format
- .ico Windows Icon
- .ifo DVD Video manager or title set
- .indd Macromedia InDesign
- .iso cd/dvd iso image (ISO0660)
- .itu iTunes
- .jng JPEG Network Graphics
- .jpg JPEG 2000
- .jpg JPEG picture
- .logic Apple Logic Studio
- .m2t Blu-ray MPEG-2
- .m2ts Blu-ray MPEG-2
- .m3u Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator
- .max Paperport
- .mb Maya
- .mfa The Games Factory Multimedia Fusion Files
- .mhbd iTunes
- .mid MIDI
- .mkv Matroska
- .mng Multiple-Image Network Graphics
- .mov Quicktime Movie
- .mp3 MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1 audio
- .mp4 MPEG 4
- .mpg Moving Picture Experts Group video
- .mp Maya
- .mrw Minolta Raw picture
- .mus Finale Music Score
- .mws MetaStock
- .nef Nikon Raw picture (TIFF image)
- .ogg OGG Vorbis audio
- .orf Olympus Raw Format picture
- .pct Macintosh Picture
- .pcx PCX file format
- .pef Pentax Raw picture (TIFF image)
- .png Portable Network Graphics
- .psd Adobe Photoshop Image
- .psp Paint Shop Pro Image File
- .ptb PowerTab
- .qxd QuarkXpress Document
- .qxp QuarkXpress Document
- .raf Raw Fujifilm picture
- .ram Real Media
- .ra Real Audio
- .raw Contax picture, Panasonic/Leica picture
- .rdc Rollei picture
- .rm Real Media
- .rns Reason
- .rns Reason Audio File
- .rpp Reaper Project
- .ses Cool Edit/Adobe Audition session
- .sib Sibelius
- .sit Mikron
- .skd AutoSketch drawing
- .spss SPSS
- .sr2 Sony Raw picture (TIFF image)
- .swc Macromedia Compressed Flash
- .swf MacroMedia Flash (Compiled)
- .tif Tag Image File Format
- .wav RIFF audio
- .wmf Windows Metafile
- .wnk Wink screen capture
- .wv WavPack, Hybrid Lossless Wavefile Compressor
- .x3f Sigma/Foveon X3 raw picture
- .xcf GIMP XCF File
- .xm FastTrackerII Extended Module
- .xv XV thumbnail image
- .wpl Windows Play List

## Office

- .accdb Microsoft Access database
- .ai Adobe Illustrator
- .csv Comma separated values
- .cwk AppleWorks
- .doc Microsoft Word (Ole document)
- .docx Microsoft Office "Open" XML (ZIP Archive)
- .fp7 File Maker Pro 7
- .kmy KMyMoney
- .lyx LyX
- .mdb Microsoft Access database (Ole document)
- .njx NJStar
- .odd OpenDocument Drawing (ZIP Archive)
- .odg OpenDocument Graphics (ZIP Archive)
- .odp OpenDocument Presentation (ZIP Archive)
- .ods OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ZIP Archive)
- .odt OpenDocument Text (ZIP Archive)
- .one Microsoft OneNote
- .pap Papyrus word file
- .ppt PowerPoint presentation
- .pptx Microsoft Office "Open" XML (ZIP Archive)
- .pub Microsoft Publisher (Ole document)
- .qbb, .qbw Quickbooks
- .rtf Rich Text Format
- .sda StarDraw (Ole document)
- .sdc StarCalc (Ole document)
- .sdd StarImpress (Ole document)
- .sdw StarWriter (Ole document)
- .slk Sylk, Multiplan Symbolic Link Interchange
- .sav SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) saved data
- .sxc OpenOffice Spreadsheet (ZIP archive)
- .sxd OpenOffice Drawing (ZIP archive)
- .sxi OpenOffice Presentation (ZIP archive)
- .sxw OpenOffice Text Document (ZIP archive)
- .tex LaTeX
- .txt Text file
- .vsd Visio document (Ole document)
- .wpd Corel Documents
- .wps Microsoft Works
- .xlr Microsoft Works Spreadsheet or Chart
- .xls Microsoft Excel (Ole document)
- .xlsx Microsoft Office "Open" XML
- .wdb Microsoft Works Database
- .wk4 Lotus 1-2-3
- .wks Lotus 1-2-3

## Others

- .abcdp Apple binary property list
- .ab Mac Address Book
- .adr Opera Hotlist
- .ahn Ahnenblatt
- .amb Licom AlphaCAM
- .amd AlphaCAM
- .amd/amt/atd/att AlphaCAM
- .amr Adaptive Multi-Rate
- .amt AlphaCAM
- .apa APA Style Helper
- .apple AppleSingle/AppleDouble
- .asm Pro/ENGINEER Assembly
- .asp ASP script
- .atd Agelong Tree Database/Abs0luteDatabase
- .att AlphaCAM
- .bak Microsoft Backup
- .bat Batch
- .c C source file
- .chm Microsoft Windows HtmlHelp Data
- .class Java Class
- .cls Microsoft VB
- .cm Comic Life
- .compress MS compress file (SZDD)
- .dat Internet Explorer index.dat- MAJ TestDisk 6.9 Release
- .dbf DBase 3 (prone to false positive)
- .dbx Outlook Express
- .dc TSCe Survey Controller DC v10.0
- .dif Lotus Data Interchange Format
- .dim SunPCI Disk Image
- .diskimage SunPCI Disk Image
- .dll Microsoft Dynamic Link Library
- .drw Pro/ENGINEER Drawing
- .dxf Drawing Interchange File
- .d2s Diablo II
- .edb Exchange Database
- ELF Executable and Linking Format
- .emlx Mac OSX mail format
- .eps Encasulated PostScript
- .evt Windows registry header detection and Event Log
- .exe Microsoft executable (PE)
- .fbk Microsoft Dynamics NAV (MS Navision)
- .fcs Flow Cytometry Standard 3.0
- .fdb Microsoft Dynamics NAV (MS Navision)
- .f Fortran
- .fits NASA Flexible Image Transport System
- .fob Microsoft Dynamics NAV (MS Navision)
- .frm MySQL table definition
- .frm Pro/ENGINEER Drawing Form
- .fst QuickBook
- .fs Zope data
- .gho Ghost
- .gpg Partial support for GPG/OpenPGP file recovery
- .gsb Grisbi - Personal Finance Manager XML data
- .h C header
- .hds Parallels disk image
- .hr9 Heredis - Genealogy
- .html HTML
- .ics vcalendar
- .imb Incredimail
- .imm Incredimail
- .jp2 sample
- .jsp JSP script
- .kdb KeepAssX
- .ldf Microsoft SQL Server Log Data File
- .lnk Microsoft Windows Link
- .mcd VectorWorks
- .mdf Microsoft SQL Server Master Database File
- .mfg Pro/ENGINEER Manufacturing
- .mk5 Custom CAD-CAM
- .mny MS Money
- .msf Mozilla "mork database"
- .msg Outlook
- .mxf Material Exchange Format
- .MYI MySQL MISAM compressed data
- .nk2 Outlook Nickfile
- .paf Personal Ancestral File
- .pcap tcpdump capture file
- .pdf Portable Document Format
- .pfx files holding PKCS#12 keys
- .php PHP script
- .pl Perl script
- .prc PalmOS application
- .prt Pro/ENGINEER Model
- .ps PostScript document
- .pst Outlook
- .pyc Python Compiled Script
- .py Python script
- .qbb Quickbooks
- .qbw Quickbooks
- .qdf Quicken
- .rb Ruby
- .reg registry config file
- .res Microsoft Visual Studio Resource
- .sh Shell script
- .skp SketchUp
- .sp3 Sisporto SP3/SPM
- .spe WinSpec
- .spf ShadowProtect
- .SQLite databases
- .sqm Windows Live Messenger Log File
- .stl Stereolithography CAD
- .stp Standard for the Exchange of Product model data
- .tax Turbo Tax
- .tib Acronis True Imag
- .tlx Surveillance System
- .tph Pro/ENGINEER ToolPath
- .ttf TrueType Font
- .tz Timezone info
- .vcf VCard
- .veg Sony Vegas
- .vmdk Vmware
- .wab Windows Address Book
- .xml XML
- .xsv XBOX GTA San Andreas Save File
- .xpt Mozilla XPCOM Type Library

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